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Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

Mike Mitchell

Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme

Improv, Comedy

4.9749 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2014

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Mike Mitchell, Director of Shrek 4, Sponge Bob 2, Sky High, Deuce Bigalow.  Great convo about Animation (What does an Animation Director do?), the Cal Arts all star roster, Sandler's input on Deuce Bigalow, the Shrek franchise, petting llamas, the awesomeness of Sky High and Kurt Russell & MORE!    Enjoy the chew....

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Chewing It. This is Kevin Heffernan on behalf of Steve Lemmy. Thanks for joining us. We've got another great guest this week. My friend Mike Mitchell joins us on the podcast. Mike directed a movie that I was in called Sky High, which is an awesome movie. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. It's funny and it's good for all ages and it's got a great cast.

0:25.3

And anyway, I did this movie with Mike and met him there and he's such a great guy and he has

0:31.0

an incredible resume of varied movies. He's directed, he directed Deuce Bigelow, which is the rated R comedy. He directed

0:41.3

Shrek 4. He directed Sky High. He just recently directed the live action version of the

0:50.4

SpongeBob sequel movie. So he's originally an animator. And he went to Cal

0:58.1

Arts and was an animator and has become this very accomplished director. And he's a great guy.

1:04.6

He tells great stories, a really fun guy to have on the podcast. And one of the interesting

1:10.8

things is talking about how to make an animated movie.

1:14.1

You know, Lemmy and I admitted that we were kind of ignorant about how the process works.

1:17.9

And he went through the process of how you do it.

1:20.4

And really interesting stuff, I think.

1:23.1

So I think you're going to like it.

1:25.0

Mike Mitchell.

1:27.6

Before we get going, a few plugs.

1:31.5

We get some stand-up shows.

1:33.0

We're in the thick of it.

1:33.7

We just got out of San Francisco and had a great time there at Cobbs.

1:37.0

And next up, we're going to Charlotte.

1:39.8

So we'll be in Charlotte, North Carolina, May 29th through 31st at the Comedy Zone.

1:45.6

Then we're heading up north of the border to Calgary.

1:48.7

We'll be there June 7th through 9th at the Laugh Shop.

1:51.9

And then we're going to go out to Colorado, June 26th through 28th at Comedy Works downtown,

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